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What’s in your Philly drinking water? Maybe not as much as you fear.

The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, where the city gets its water, are much cleaner than they were in the years before the Clean Water Act of 1972. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems on the horizon.

The Delaware River flows under the Ben Franklin Bridge and past Philadelphia.
The Delaware River flows under the Ben Franklin Bridge and past Philadelphia.Read moreTom Gralish / File Photograph